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Our hosts, Robin Greubel and Stacy Barnett, welcome Bob Deeds back to debrief the first-ever chicken workshop hosted at Robin's farm.
Bob, drawing on the legacy of Keller and Marian Breland and Bob Bailey, the operant conditioning pioneers behind Animal Behavior Enterprises and the IQ Zoo, explains that the chicken workshop isn't really about chickens at all!
White Leghorns, selected for their speed and reactivity, are a crucible for the trainer, forcing observational precision, mechanical timing, and real-time decision-making that slower species simply can't demand. The group that gathered at Robin's farm was a genuinely mixed bag: a horse trainer, professional detection handlers, a pet dog trainer who also teaches others, and a sport dog handler who arrived feeling self-conscious about her credentials.
By the end, that trainer was unrecognizable in the best way. Her confidence transformed, her mechanics sharpened, her sense of belonging earned.
What the hosts return to again and again is the downstream effect of students reaching out weeks later, saying they finally had the words to explain a dog's behavior to a client, or that they rewrote a puppy class mid-workshop. That's the whole point.
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By Stacy Barnett, Robin Greubel4.8
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What to listen for:
Our hosts, Robin Greubel and Stacy Barnett, welcome Bob Deeds back to debrief the first-ever chicken workshop hosted at Robin's farm.
Bob, drawing on the legacy of Keller and Marian Breland and Bob Bailey, the operant conditioning pioneers behind Animal Behavior Enterprises and the IQ Zoo, explains that the chicken workshop isn't really about chickens at all!
White Leghorns, selected for their speed and reactivity, are a crucible for the trainer, forcing observational precision, mechanical timing, and real-time decision-making that slower species simply can't demand. The group that gathered at Robin's farm was a genuinely mixed bag: a horse trainer, professional detection handlers, a pet dog trainer who also teaches others, and a sport dog handler who arrived feeling self-conscious about her credentials.
By the end, that trainer was unrecognizable in the best way. Her confidence transformed, her mechanics sharpened, her sense of belonging earned.
What the hosts return to again and again is the downstream effect of students reaching out weeks later, saying they finally had the words to explain a dog's behavior to a client, or that they rewrote a puppy class mid-workshop. That's the whole point.
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Resources:
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